Events
1717 -
George Boone, the grandfather of
pioneer and American
folk hero Daniel Boone sails to
America from
Bradninch,
England1807 -
Robert Fulton's first
American steamboat leaves
New York City for
Albany, New York on the
Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1862 -
Indian Wars: The
Lakota (
Sioux)
Dakota War of 1862 begins in
Minnesota as vicious Lakota attack white settlements along the
Minnesota River.
1863 -
American Civil War: In
Charleston, South Carolina,
Union batteries and ships bombard
Confederate-held
Fort Sumter.
1864 - American Civil War:
Battle of Gainesville -
Confederate forces defeat
Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
1883 - The first public performance of the
Dominican Republic's
national anthem,
Quisqueyanos valientes.
1907 -
Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in
Seattle.
1914 -
World War I:
Battle of Stalluponen - The
German army of
General Hermann von François defeats the
Russian force commanded by
Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
1915 -
Jewish American Leo Frank is
lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in
Marietta, Georgia.
1918 -
Bolshevik revolutionary leader
Moisei Uritsky is
assassinated.
1933 -
New York Yankees first baseman
Lou Gehrig played his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking
Everett Scott's record. He would continue the streak until
1939.
1942 -
U.S. Marines raid the
Japanese-held
Pacific island of Makin (
Butaritari).
1943 -
World War II: The
U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the
Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.1943 - World War II: The
U.S. Seventh Army under
General George S. Patton arrive in
Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the
British 8th Army under
Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the
Allied conquest of
Sicily.1943 - World War II:
First Québec Conference of
Winston Churchill,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1945 -
Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
1953 -
Addiction: First meeting of
Narcotics Anonymous in
Southern California.
1959 -
Quake Lake:
Quake Lake was formed by a 7.5 rated
earthquake in
Montana.
1960 -
Decolonization:
Gabon gains independence from
France.
1962 -
East German border guards kill 18-year-old
Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the
Berlin Wall into
West Berlin becoming the first victim of the wall.
1963 - A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of
Okinawa sinks, killing 112.
1969 - Category 5
Hurricane Camille hits the
Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
1970 -
Venera Program:
Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another
planet (
Venus).
1978 -
Double Eagle II becomes first
balloon to cross the
Atlantic Ocean when it lands in
Miserey near
Paris, 137 hours after leaving
Presque Isle, Maine.
1979 - Two
Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over
Ukraine, killing 156
1980 -
Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a
dingo, leading to what was then the most
publicised trial in
Australian history.
1982 - The first
Compact Discs (
CD's) were released to the public in
Germany.
1988 -
Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and
U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1991 -
Wade Frankum starts his killing spree in
Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the
Strathfield Massacre.
1998 -
Monica Lewinsky scandal:
US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with
White House intern
Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1999 - A 7.4-magnitude
earthquake strikes
İzmit,
Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2002 -
Soham murders: The bodies of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are found 13 days after their disappearance at the perimeter fence of
RAF Lakenheath in
Suffolk.
2004 -
MD5 collision found by
Chinese researchers.2004 - The
National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for
Serbia:
Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the
coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 - The first forced
evacuation of
settlers, as part of the
Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
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